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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Roman satirist of the early second century CE is quoted in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Juvenal.
(c) Barbaroi.
(d) Hesiod.

2. What does "aqua ardens" translate to in English?
(a) Love potion.
(b) Water of life.
(c) Burning water.
(d) Bubbling water.

3. Who is the god of wine in Greek mythology?
(a) Ares.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Athena.

4. Approximately when did pottery emerge?
(a) 8000 BCE.
(b) 2000 BCE.
(c) 6000 BCE.
(d) 1000 BCE.

5. What eighth-century Arab scholar is remembered as one of the fathers of chemistry and the creator of an improved form of distillation apparatus?
(a) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(b) Michael Puff von Schrick.
(c) Johannes Gutenberg.
(d) Arnald of Villanova.

6. When did Britain defeat the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1779.

7. The earliest written documents consist of what from the Ancient Sumerians?
(a) Epic hunting stories.
(b) Wage lists and tax receipts.
(c) Poems and short stoies.
(d) Plays and novels.

8. Sahti is a traditional beer made where?
(a) England.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Finland.
(d) Germany.

9. By what year did Urok in Mesopotamia have a population of around 50,000, according to the author in Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt"?
(a) 2000 BCE.
(b) 1500 BCE.
(c) 3000 BCE.
(d) 1000 BCE.

10. When did the fall of Carthage occur at the end of the Third Punic War?
(a) 146 BCE.
(b) 368 BCE.
(c) 212 BCE.
(d) 120 BCE.

11. Approximately when were the Egyptian pyramids constructed?
(a) 1600 BCE.
(b) 2400 BCE.
(c) 900 BCE.
(d) 1200 BCE.

12. Approximately when did humankind adopt the process of farming, beginning with the domestication of cereal grains?
(a) 5,000 years ago.
(b) 12,000 years ago.
(c) 18,000 years ago.
(d) 3,000 years ago.

13. Who was the professor of the French medical school of Montpellier who produced instructions for distilling win around 1300?
(a) Johannes Gutenberg.
(b) Michael Puff von Schrick.
(c) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(d) Arnald of Villanova.

14. What is the boiling point of alcohol?
(a) 78 degrees centigrade.
(b) 56 degrees centigrade.
(c) 100 degrees centigrade.
(d) 98 degrees centigrade.

15. When was Homer's Odyssey written?
(a) Fourth century BCE.
(b) Seventh century BCE.
(c) Sixth century BCE.
(d) Eighth century BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author refer to as the world's first literary work in Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt"?

2. What Greek word refers to a form of ritual exhibitionism wherein the members of a drinking group would course through the streets in nocturnal revelry to emphasize the strength and unity of their group?

3. What does "aqua vitae" translate to in English?

4. What word refers to repeated distillation that creates highly concentrated ethanol?

5. Around the eighth century BCE, the Greek-speaking peoples referred to non-Greek speakers as what?

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